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ARC for review.

"Say what you will about music, film, television, dance, painting, theater, sculpture - only text on a page can be sustained at such length that a person can both get lost in it and create his own version of it simultaneously. " (Introduction)

I always love books about books and this was no exception - it's always great to see what books people have loved and why and many of my favorites appear here - Gillian Flynn completely "gets" everything I love about The Westing Game by the wonderful Ellen Raskin (one of my top ten favorite books) and I love that so many of the books are children's books - Harriet the Spy, the "Little House" series, A Wrinkle in Time and others).

There are also some incredibly interesting essays - Porochista Khakpour writes about Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys, a book so powerfully disturbing to her she "sort of felt like it brought on a nervous breakdown" and she can't stand not to have that very copy in her home because "it's such a part of me that even though I'm a bit scared by its presence I'm also scared by it's absence." Chilling.

I also loved Glenn Taylor's entry on To Kill a Mockingbird, not so much because of his description of the book, but because of his lengthy discourse in growing up in Huntington, West Virginia and the idea of West Virginia being both Southern and not. Incredibly interesting.

You know if this book is for you, and if it is, take a gander.